Reliant Stadium

Virginia Tech has agreed to delay its home-and-home football series against Wisconsin until 2019 and ’20, and has replaced the Badgers in 2016 and ’17 with another major conference opponent, Hokies athletic director Jim Weaver confirmed Thursday. The shift gives Tech two non-conference opponents from the Big Ten in 2020: Wisconsin at home and Michigan on the road. That’s ambition comparable to 2009, when the Hokies opened against Alabama in Atlanta and played at Nebraska. The move accommodates Wisconsin, which has agreed to open the 2014 and ’16 seasons against LSU at NFL venues — Houston’s Reliant Stadium and Green Bay’s Lambeau Field,...

ARLINGTON, Texas – The doors to AT&T Stadium opened to reporters at 9 a.m. on Thursday and the first sounds that could be heard were Kevin Ollie's voice, reverberating throughout the cavernous arena.From the distant concourse, UConn players and...

STORRS – UConn players were filing off the bus at AT&T Stadium on Jan 2. There was no game that day, but yet another bus ride in what seems like an endless stream of bus rides."Everybody took it as, why are we doing this?" DeAndre Daniels...

As the Ravens were struggling to put away the Jacksonville Jaguars on Sunday, their final two opponents of the regular season were dealing with issues of their own.
The Houston Texans lost their starting quarterback, Ryan Fitzpatrick, to a broken tibia...

Now that voters have rejected a plan to save the Houston Astrodome, a marvel of engineering muscle and space-age glamour and easily the city's most important building, it would be easy to conclude that modern architecture has a major image problem in this...

So much for the Astrodome’s new lease on life.
Voters rejected a countywide ballot measure Tuesday that would have raised more than $200 million to restore the domed stadium in Houston and turn it into a multipurpose event center. Prop. 2 failed by a...

HOUSTON — Forget Monticello or the Chrysler building: There may be no piece of architecture more quintessentially American than the Astrodome.
Widely copied after it opened in 1965, it perfectly embodies postwar U.S. culture in its brash combination of...

If there was any lingering doubt that Ed Reed was intent about testing the free agent market and leaving the only NFL organization he’s ever known, it should have been erased Thursday afternoon when the long-time Ravens safety stepped off a plane...

Ed Reed sure seems to be serious about exploring his options on the open market.
As I write this, the free-agent safety is in Houston, where the Texans have rolled out the red carpet for the likely future Hall-of-Famer. They scooped him up in a private...

Ravens All-Pro outside linebacker Terrell Suggs could play Sunday against the Houston Texans.
The Ravens on Saturday activated the reigning NFL Defensive Player of the Year from the physically-unable-to-perform list, a procedural move required under...

Many NFL coaches are quick to suggest that the rigors of training camp can shape a player's propensity for success during the regular season.Houston Texans defensive end J.J. Watt may be the poster boy who dispels that notion.Watt leads the league in...

Whenever Ravens running back Ray Rice carries the football or catches passes Sunday, Arian Foster intends to keep a close watch.
And it's not because the Houston Texans' star is required to observe his counterpart when he's on the sideline at Reliant...

Downplaying the severity of a torn labrum in his shoulder, Ravens free safety Ed Reed emphasized that the injury won't affect his tackling.One day after revealing the injury on 105.7 The Fan and acknowledging the injury has had a negative effect, Reed...

Every week, I hope to bring you a quick Q&A with someone who covers the Ravens’ opponent that week. On Sunday, the Ravens will take on the Houston Texans in Houston. Stephanie Stradley blogs about the Texans for The Houston Chronicle, and she was kind...

If you believe Jacoby Jones, the hurt and the anger and the frustration have finally subsided.Jones says he doesn’t care how Houston fans will receive him on Sunday and that playing his former team, the Houston Texans, will be just like any other game. He...

You’ve probably seen this by now but it’s worth reiterating. By virtue of the Denver Broncos’ comeback victory last night against the San Diego Chargers, only two of the AFC’s 16 teams will enter Week Seven with a winning record. Those teams – the...

Although injured Pro Bowl outside linebacker Terrell Suggs is eligible to begin practicing as soon as Wednesday under league rules, the Ravens are noncommittal on whether he'll rejoin his teammates on the field this week.The Ravens are taking a cautious...

Every Monday morning, the day after my favorite day of the week but still hours before that week’s slate of games officially wraps up with “Monday Night Football,” I will bring you my weekly premature NFL power rankings.Why Monday? Because who wants to...

DENVER — As Chris Lindley drove to work that morning in August 2008, a call set his heart pounding. The Democratic National Convention was being held in Denver, and Barack Obama was to accept his party's presidential nomination before a crowd of 80,000...